| Mr Khan said: "History" is not going to end, of course, but European-style social democracy does seem to be the terminal point of political evolution, where basic needs are guaranteed by society but economic freedoms are sufficient to allow for a robust private sector and freedoms of thought are likewise guaranteed. |
But the problem is that at this point the state shows a tendency to keep evolving at the expense of everyone else. Never mind the increasingly precarious state of civil liberties in the modern national security state. Just purely economically it's not exactly sustainable to have the public sector meeting or even far exceeding the private as a measure of GDP, and a lot of wheels seem to be coming off a lot of wagons lately. So looking back over the relative few decades of the European social democracy's existence (fewer decades still at the time Fukuyama wrote his book) and declaring, "Yeah, guys... this is it," seems hilariously short sighted. Especially when you take such a long view as he otherwise does to consider centuries of regression and stagnation to be merely some kind of temporary departure from the natural course of evolution.
